Currently professional musicians use FireWire 400 professional
multitrack audio devices to "master" their music prior to "cutting"/
burning audio CDs & video DVDs. This is the coming thing:
multichannel, multitrack recording, mixing, merging, editing using
multichannel 24 bit / 96K audio analog to digital and playback. The
mastered audio (or video) can be easily transferred to an iPod for
presentation at a radio station or delivery to the CD or DVD
production house.
Currently FireWire is the dividing line between the pros and the
consumers. The music pros use the (older) iPods as hard drive storage
and playback. I have witnessed professional musicians download from
the studio directly to an iPod, then FedEx the iPod back east to
their agents for download, preview and then release to production or
direct to the presentation. (Video can be done the same way. FireWire
is capable of handling four (4) DV video streams over a single
FireWire 400 cable. USB = not, EtherNet = not. The older iPods can
swallow a video stream easily as a simple file transfer as if it were
a hard drive.)
USB still can't do this ... because all of this bandwidth
(multitrack, multichannel audio & video equipment) demands FireWire.
Downloading any of the multitrack, multichannel audio captured with
the above devices to an iPod via FireWire is easy and a regular
occurrence in the professional music venue.
Ed Karns
FireWireStuff.com
On Oct 21, 2005, at 12:06 PM, email@hidden wrote:
1. Re: video iPod has no FireWire support? (Eric Anderson)
The new iPod does not use FireWire (except I believe it can charge
from
FireWire). FireWire fans of course may be sad to see the change, but
it's difficult to argue that FireWire would making a difference for
the
majority of iPod customers today - aside from adding cost and weight.
Was the professional audio world and TV / Movie industry using iPod's
FireWire port in some way?
Eric
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